(48 quotes found)
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast”
Groucho Marx
“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.”
Frank Sinatra
“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown”
Adam Walinsky
“Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.”
Jack Handy
“To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.”
“Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.”
T.E. Lawrence
“It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.”
William Shakespeare
“"“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off… I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ a broomstick.””
Harper Lee
